netdev - Re: [v2 net-next PATCH 00/10] Support for OcteonTx2 98xx silcion

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Date:   Sat, 31 Oct 2020 15:05:52 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     sundeep.lkml@...il.com
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, sgoutham@...vell.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [v2 net-next PATCH 00/10] Support for OcteonTx2 98xx silcion

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:45:39 +0530 sundeep.lkml@...il.com wrote:
> From: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
> 
> OcteonTx2 series of silicons have multiple variants, the
> 98xx variant has two network interface controllers (NIX blocks)
> each of which supports upto 100Gbps. Similarly 98xx supports
> two crypto blocks (CPT) to double the crypto performance.
> The current RVU drivers support a single NIX and
> CPT blocks, this patchset adds support for multiple
> blocks of same type to be active at the same time.
> 
> Also the number of serdes controllers (CGX) have increased
> from three to five on 98xx. Each of the CGX block supports
> upto 4 physical interfaces depending on the serdes mode ie
> upto 20 physical interfaces. At a time each CGX block can
> be mapped to a single NIX. The HW configuration to map CGX
> and NIX blocks is done by firmware.
> 
> NPC has two new interfaces added NIX1_RX and NIX1_TX
> similar to NIX0 interfaces. Also MCAM entries is increased
> from 4k to 16k. To support the 16k entries extended set
> is added in hardware which are at completely different
> register offsets. Fortunately new constant registers
> can be read to figure out the extended set is present
> or not.

Applied, thanks!